April 13, 2024
Laundromats, Lawyers, Learning Loss, and Life: An Autobiographical Day in Education[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of this Blog on the “Improving Education Today: The…
December 31, 2022
Reviewing the Educational Challenges of 2022: The Need for Improvement in the Midst of Academic Gaps, Discipline and SEL Problems, School Shootings, and Continued DisproportionalityDear Colleagues,Introduction …
November 12, 2022
Teaching Students Needed Academic and Social-Emotional SkillsWe Need to Sweat the Small StuffDear Colleagues,Introduction Once again, I am writing this Blog while flying at 33,000…
August 6, 2022
Closing the (Pandemic?) Reading Gap in Our Schools: We Need to Link Sound Assessment with Strategic InterventionHow One New Federal Status Report (and Three Popular…
June 27, 2020
For Some Students, There Will Be No COVID-19 SlideDear Colleagues,Introduction The pandemic clearly is not over. In fact, over the past two weeks, the…
March 14, 2020
Underachieving, Unresponsive, Unsuccessful, Disabled, and Failing ReadersDiagnostic Assessment Must Link to Intervention: If We Don’t Know “Why,” We Can’t Know “What” (Part II)Dear Colleagues,Introduction Last…
February 29, 2020
How a Comprehensive Blueprint Prevents Isolated Solutions and Inconsistent ResultsDear Colleagues,Introduction Well. . . “all of a sudden,” there has been a nationwide rush of…
March 30, 2019
Call Congress: The Tainting of RtI, PBIS, MTSS, and SELDear Colleagues,Introduction In Poker, a player “doubles down” when they have a losing hand, but they…
October 31, 2016
Why Effective Practice Needs to Dictate Good Policy (Rather than the Other Way Around)Dear Colleague,There are times in education where we get so focused on…
September 7, 2015
Reading Proficiency, Unprepared Students, Untrained Teachers, and Ill-Advised Responses: A National Dilemma and New National ReportDear Colleagues,Since the early 1990s (and even before), our schools…